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SPIE has launched its Optipedia resource for the optics and photonics communities. Available in the “Publications” section of the organization’s Web site, Optipedia offers key pages from select SPIE Press books and links them together via key words. Visitors to the site can search for the...Read full article

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...